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Scam targets area churches and businesses
(Plain Press, June 2014)Sister Judith at St. Rocco’s parish wants to alert area businesses and churches about a scam that is targeting local churches and businesses. She said the scam involves someone calling a company or a church and telling them their baby is sick, or they need a home or apartment and a sister…
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Plain Press Classified Advertisements
$10 for 12 words and 30¢ for each additional word. To advertise count the words and mail a check or money order with your ad to the Plain Press, 2012 W. 25th #500 Cleveland, OH 44113. For more information call Tom Sheehan at (216) 621-3060 or email plainpressads@yahoo.com. BLOG WHO HAS THE POWER RADIO NETWORK:…
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Art Ledger named to Ohio Taxidermists Hall of Fame
(Plain Press, May 2014)Art Ledger, owner of A & K Taxidermy on W. 48th Street in the Stockyard neighborhood is a 2014 inductee into the Ohio Taxidermists Hall of Fame. Ledger is the first African American to be inducted into the Ohio Taxidermists Hall of Fame. He is the co-founder of Ohio’s First Taxidermy Association…
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Mitchell’s Ice Cream
PHOTO BY DEBBIE SADLON Wednesday, April 23, 2014; Mitchell’s Ice Cream, 1871 W. 25th: Mitchell’s Ice Cream opened its new ice cream shop, headquarters and production facility on Monday April 21st, after completing an extensive renovation of a building that originally housed the Rialto Theater. The facility opened in time for the Ohio City celebration…
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Lack of parking at the West Side Market
Open letter to Steve Bitto, Executive Director of Marketing and Communications at GCRTA: Suggestion to alleviate parking problem at the West Side Market To the editor: One of the biggest issues there is lack of parking – all the merchants will tell you. And what about a shuttle between market and red line? And sell…
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Tend-R-Lean Steak Company closes its doors
Thirty-seven years after he started working at Tend-R-Lean Steak Company, owner Marty Kreinberg has decided to close down the company and sell the building at 7106 Lorain Avenue. Kreinberg said he had been negotiating with a potential buyer for the business, but the sale did not materialize. Kreinberg will continue to work in the neighborhood…
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Express Laundry Center celebrates grand opening in Clark Fulton neighborhood
(Plain Press, March 2014) Residents of the Clark Fulton neighborhood, joined with staff of the Stockyards, Clark Fulton Brooklyn Center Community Development office, Ward 14 Councilman Brian Cummins, and other guests to celebrate the grand opening of Express Laundry Center at 4401 Clark Avenue on Tuesday, February 11th. Express Laundry Center owner Joe Olivo served…
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Tend-R-Lean Steak Company owner Marty Kreinberg represents third generation to process meat in neighborhood
by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, March 2014)Tend-R-Lean Steak Company at 7106 Lorain Avenue is well known to Plain Press readers. Tend-R-Lean’s advertisement has graced the back page of the Plain Press for over two decades, offering readers frozen meat and other food items at wholesale prices. Many readers go first to the back page of…
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Activists call for new War on Poverty
PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Wednesday, January 8th; Rally for New War on Poverty, Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry, 4515 Superior Avenue: Poverty Warrior Rowena Ventura with Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry’s Advocacy Director Reverend Tony Minor. Ventura rose from a coffin symbolizing the resurrection of the War on Poverty. Activists call for new War on Poverty by Chuck Hoven…
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Stop the War on Our Children Now!!!
PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Wednesday, January 8th; Rally for New War on Poverty, Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry, 4515 Superior Avenue: As part of a call to renew the War on Poverty, Greg Coleridge urges us to “Stop the War on Our Children Now!!! Education 4 All. Invest in Our Future.”